Our major focus is bringing to any challenge a C- level perspective married to the patience to go deep into the data to mine key insights and the operator’s itch to make something happen quickly. We don’t believe you get outsized gains by following conventional wisdom, but we are careful to avoid analysis paralysis. Our job is to focus on driving to insightful and execution-oriented answers as quickly as possible.
Areas where we focus
Innovation
The long-term value in any company is going to be subject to its ability to either adapt to the market or acquire those who have. We know you face tough decisions as you look at complex landscapes and need to make bets that lie a curve away. We can help you think these decisions through and make sure your people are preparing for the future while maintaining focus on the present.
Let us know how we can help you to put together your roadmap for the future, provide an objective analysis or research, or give you and your team new tools to improve the results of your innovation efforts.
Strategy
The pace of change is increasing and determining strategic alternatives can be complex with today’s global organizations and fragmented marketplaces. We’ve helped others work through these issues before and can bring an objective and experienced perspective forged across many industries and hundreds of projects. Unlike others, we can structure work to happen in a big project or in smaller pieces over time. We can serve both in the early phases of strategy or in the later phases of implementation.
Let us know how we can help you to get the executive team on the same page, bring best practices from other industries, help you to structure complex problems, sift through the data to understand the key insights, or provide the bandwidth to drive a project to completion.
Technology
The impact of technology and digitization spans all industries and functions. However, there are no magic bullets. Understanding what is required for large technology investments to succeed and mapping out how vendors plan to take you there (vs. for a ride) requires the ability to dig deep and understand the opportunities and risks involved for your business and business model.
Let us know how we can help to outline unmet needs and use cases, put together product requirements and RFPs, perform due diligence on vendors and map out a technical roadmap, and manage the implementation on the technical and business sides. We can help ask the hard questions and ensure the match between technical capabilities and business needs to reduce the risk of technology that needs to be replaced as soon as its installed.
Health
The rapid expansion of the health care industry and the countervailing forces of health cost control offer a mix of opportunity and risk. As the new business models for health and health care are sorted out, determining an appropriate strategy and having a perspective on the potential ways the industry may evolve is critical for making any bets. We’re familiar with the major trends and underlying megatrends and can help you understand what the various players want and need to accomplish.
Let us know how we can help you map out the scenarios for health care and ensure a balanced portfolio of initiatives sure to succeed whatever happens. Let us also help you navigate through the twisted incentives of the health care landscape to ensure that your good idea that saves lives has positive economic effects on the customers and channel you hope to sell it to. We bring experience from the provider and the business perspective — let us help ensure that you know how the insured and non-insured portions of the market function.